Spécialisation Foundations of Global Health

Build skills to improve health & save lives. Learn foundational building blocks of humanitarian program planning, implementation, and evaluation.

À propos de cette Spécialisation

This specialization is intended for people working or aspiring to work in global health programming. You will learn the foundational building blocks of effective program planning, implementation, and evaluation in a variety of settings, including low- and middle-income countries and humanitarian crises.

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6 courses

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Vue d'ensemble des projets

Learners will complete a project in each course. Along the way, you will analyze a health system, propose a primary health care intervention, develop a community health worker training plan, propose a humanitarian intervention, analyze a community undergoing change, perform a health belief assessment, and prepare a country profile for use during travel.

Cours

Beginner Specialization.: No prior experience required.

COURS 1
Understanding and Strengthening Health Systems
Sous-titres
English
À propos du cours
Welcome to our course on Understanding and Strengthening Health Systems for Global Health. During the course we will provide you with an overview of the main elements or building blocks of a health system based on the World Health Organization’s g
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COURS 2
Public Health in Humanitarian Crises
Engagement
5 weeks, 2-3 hours per week
Sous-titres
English
À propos du cours
This course introduces a set of public health problems experienced by people affected by natural disasters and/or conflict. It discusses the many changes in people’s lives when they are uprooted by a disaster, ranging from changes in disease patterns, a
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COURS 3
Health for All Through Primary Health Care
Engagement
12-15 hours
Sous-titres
English
À propos du cours
This course explores why primary health care is central for achieving Health for All. It provides examples of how primary health care has been instrumental in approaching this goal in selected populations and how the principles of primary health care c
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COURS 4
Diagnosing Health Behaviors for Global Health Programs
Sous-titres
English
À propos du cours
Health behavior lies at the core of any successful public health intervention. While we will examine the behavior of individual in depth in this course, we also recognize by way of the Ecological Model that individual behavior is encouraged or constraine
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COURS 5
Community Change in Public Health
Engagement
5 weeks of study, 1-3 hours/week
Sous-titres
English
À propos du cours
In bringing about behavior change in public health, we often focus on the individual mother, student, or farmer. We should not forget the community structure and norms constrain for encouraging individual health behaviors. This course exam
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COURS 6
Training and Learning Programs for Volunteer Community Health Workers
Engagement
6 weeks of study, 2-3 hours per week
Sous-titres
English
À propos du cours
Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are a major strategy for increasing access to and coverage of basic health interventions. Our village health worker training course reviews the process of training and continuing education of CHWs as an i
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Créateurs

The mission of The Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.
The mission of The Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.

Mija Ververs
Senior Associate
Gilbert Burnham, MD
Professor
William Brieger, DrPH
Professor, Health Systems Program of the Department of International Health
Dr. Henry Perry, MD, PhD, MPH
Senior Scientist, International Health

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